Securities Offerings

• Counsel to the Republic of El Salvador as issuer of its US$653 million notes due 2041 and US$800 million notes due 2019.
• Represented CNL Lifestyle Properties, Inc. in connection with its issuance of US$400 million notes due 2019.
• Counsel to the Republic of Panama in its international capital markets offerings.
• Representation of Industrias Metalúrgicas S.A.I.C. y F. as issuer of US$225 million notes due 2014.
• Represented Electricidad de Caracas in the issuance of its US$650 million Senior Notes due 2018 and in tender offer for its US$260 million notes due 2014.
• Represented CNL Lifestyle Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust devoted to investments in lifestyle properties, in its public offerings of common stock totalling US$3 billion.
• Representation of CNL Properties Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust, in its US$4 billion initial public offering of common stock. 
• Counsel to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in all of its US and international capital markets offerings.

Financing Transactions

• Counsel to Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., as borrower in connection with US$1.5 billion structured financing and petroleum offtake facility with Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), Insurance, Itochu Corporation, and Mitsubishi Corporation.
• Represented borrower in connection with the acquisition and secured financing of four AFRAMAX oil tankers with funding provided by Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
• Advised Banco de Desarrollo Economico y Social de Venezuela as borrower and Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. as seller in connection with US$8 billion credit facilities with China Development Bank and related purchase and sale arrangements for the sale of petroleum products to China National United Oil Corporation.
• Represented Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., as borrower in connection with a US$3.5 billion structured financing and petroleum offtake facility with Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Marubeni Corporation and other Japanese financial institutions guaranteed by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
• Advised IMPSAT Fiber Networks, Inc. in connection with US$300 million project financing of long-haul and metropolitan terrestrial fiber optic network in Argentina and Brazil.
• Represented Industrias Metalurgicas Perscamona S.A.I.C. y. F. as borrower under an US$87 million secured financing of pre-sale proceeds of sale of interests in hydroelectric facility in the Philippines.

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Counsel to Walker & Dunlop, Inc. in connection with its US$220 million acquisition of CW Capital LLC from affiliates of Fortress Investment Group LLC for a combination of cash and Walker & Dunlop common stock.
• Counsel to Reckitt Benckiser plc in its US$2.3 billion tender offer and acquisition of Adams Respiratory Therapeutics, Inc.
• Represented Basell USA, Inc. in its acquisition of Solvay Engineered Polymers, Inc. from Solvay America, Inc.
• Represented FPS Food Processing Systems B.V. in its acquisition of Diamond Automations, Inc. from Talon LLC.

Chapter 11 Proceedings and Other Restructurings and Refinancings

• Counsel to Quebecor World (USA) Inc. as debtor in its restructuring under Chapter 11 and reorganization of Quebecor World Inc. in its affiliated reorganization under the Canadian Companies Creditors’ Arrangement Act.
• Counsel to US Airways Inc. as debtor in its Plan of Reorganization and emergence from Chapter 11.
• Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Covanta Energy in its restructuring and emergence from Chapter 11.
• Counsel to IMPSAT Fiber Networks, Inc. as debtor in Plan of Reorganization and simultaneous restructuring of subsidiary indebtedness totaling in excess of US$1 billion.
• Counsel to TPG Partners, LP as co-proponent and new controlling stockholder in connection with America West Airlines' plan of reorganization and emergence from Chapter 11.
• Counsel to the Republic of Venezuela in its 1990 Financing Plan (restructuring of US$20.7 billion in sovereign debt), which also involved the restructuring of numerous types and classes of creditors for different types of newly issued debt securities.
• Counsel to C.A. Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela (CANTV), the incumbent Venezuelan fixed switch telephone provider, in its consensual debt restructuring of in excess of US$1 billion in indebtedness, which also involved the restructuring of numerous types and classes of creditors for different types of newly issued debt securities.

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